Forward-Deployed Technical Product Manager

Forward-Deployed Technical Product Manager

Impruve is a boutique forward-deployed engineering firm that helps wealth management firms get real business results from AI. We embed directly with our clients to build production data pipelines, AI tools, custom software, and compliance infrastructure for top-tier firms managing billions in client assets. We have more demand than we can currently serve, and we're growing theteam to meet it.

Our founders previously built and exited Packback ,an AI company that served more than 3 million users. We operate with the speedof a small startup and the rigor of a top firm.

We're four engineers right now, and we're building how we work on purpose, notbackfilling a culture after the fact. We care about doing right by clients andby each other. We take the work seriously: real client money, real compliance risk, real production systems. We do team-wide retros every two months to makesure we're all on the same page and continually improving.

We pair early and often, across the team, because it's how we actually getbetter. If you notice something interesting mid-task, we want you to flag itand pull someone in, not disappear down a rabbit hole solo. When something breaks, we run blameless postmortems; the point is fixing the system, not finding someone to blame.

We don't expect you to walk in with all the answers. Nobody here has them either. We expect you to be scrappy: willing to try something, see what happens, and figure it out with the team rather than wait until you're sure.

You won't be joining something fully formed. You'd be joining our founding engineering team, with real say in how this team works, not just what it ships.

Most wealth management firms want AI in their business and have access to the frontier models. What’s missing is someone who can sit between the business andthe engineering team and turn ambiguous client needs into production systems that actually change how they operate. That’s the gap this role fills.

We don’t build a SaaS product. We build products for clients. You’d be theperson who owns the shape of what gets built: gathering requirements, managing stakeholders, prototyping solutions, and making sure the engineering team is building the right thing. You’d work embedded with our clients, shoulder to shoulder with our engineers.

• Own the Client Relationship: You’re the person a $5B RIA calls when theywant to automate their compliance review process but can’t articulate whatthat means yet. You embed with their team, earn trust across the org chart,and stay candid about what’s realistic, including the hard conversations about what we won’t build.
• Turn Fuzzy Goals Into Shipped Systems: Clients come to us with “we wantAI in our workflow.” Your job is to figure out which workflow, why it matters,and what “done” looks like, then write the requirements that engineers can actually build against. You own the outcome through delivery, not just thespec.
• Prototype Before We Commit: Before we put an engineer on something fortwo weeks, you’ve already built a rough version with Claude and put it infront of the client’s ops team to see if it actually solves the problem. Youtest assumptions with real users, not slide decks.
• Be the Person Who Speaks Both
  
  Languages:
  
  You can sit in a client’squarterly planning meeting and hear what they’re actually asking for underneath the buzzwords, then turn around and have a real conversation with engineers about whether that’s a RAG pipeline or a rules engine, and why itmatters.
• Juggle Multiple Clients Without Dropping Anything: You’ll run two orthree engagements t means knowing which client needs a check-incall and which one needs you to leave the engineers alone for a week. Youmake good calls with…